Join hands in service

In recognition of National Family Week and Veteran’s Day, the

Newport-Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council will sponsor its second annual

Hearts and Hands Multi-Faith Family Service Day on Nov. 9 from 8:30

a.m. to 3 p.m. The meeting place is the Latter-Day Saints Church at

801 Dover Drive, Newport Beach.

The service projects will benefit worldwide humanitarian relief

efforts, as well as our own local and national organizations. They

include making hygiene kits for Serving People in Need (SPIN), quilts

for Orangewood Children, sandwiches for Save Our Selves (SOS), school

kits for children in refugee camps and collecting books.

Off-site projects include painting and refurbishing the South

Coast Children Home, painting and cleaning the newly acquired THINK

Center at Wilson School and gardening at the Environmental Nature

Center, to name a few.

For some of the projects, all of the materials will be provided,

while for others, you may need to bring a hammer, paint brush or

stepladder.

More than 400 people participated last year, including volunteers

from SOS, Friends in Service to Humanity, The Orange County Fire

Department, the Girl and Boy Scouts of America, Adopt-A-Social Worker

Foundation, Latter-Day Saints Humanitarian Relief, Rotary Clubs,

Newport Harbor High School, the American Red Cross and many churches

and temples in Costa Mesa, Irvine and Newport Beach.

Registration for service organizations, projects and volunteers

are now being taken on a first come, first served basis.

If you, your family, your faith community, youth group, office or

service group want to be part of this hands-on service event,

contact: Jaimie Day at (949) 642-9460.

WORTH REPEATING

From Greg Kelley of the Newport Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council ...

“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will

outlast it.” ... William James

SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS

THIS COMING WEEK

MONDAY

6:30 p.m.: The Harbor Mesa Lions Club will meet at Zubies

Restaurant.

TUESDAY

7:15 a.m.: The Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club will meet at Five

Crowns Restaurant.

6:30 p.m.: The Costa Mesa Newport Harbor Lions Club will meet at

the Costa Mesa Country Club.

WEDNESDAY

7:15 a.m.: The 20-member South Coast Metro Rotary Club will meet

at the Center Club (www.southcoastmet rorotary.org); and the Newport

Harbor Kiwanis Club meets at the University Athletic Club.

Noon: The Soroptimist International Newport Harbor will meet at

the Santa Ana Country Club for a program meeting; and the 35-member

Exchange Club of the Orange Coast will meet at the Bahia Corinthian

Yacht Club.

6 p.m.: The 55-member Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa will meet at

the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club (www.newportbalboa.org).

THURSDAY

7 a.m.: The 20-plus-member Costa Mesa-Orange Costa Breakfast Lions

Club will meet at Mimi’s Cafe for a program by Jim Scott on the Costa

Mesa Community Athletic Foundation.

Noon: The 50-member Costa Mesa Kiwanis Club will meet at the

Holiday Inn (www.kiwanis.org/club/ costamesa); the Newport

Beach-Corona del Mar Kiwanis Club meets at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht

Club to hear Rep. Chris Cox; the 80-member Exchange Club of Newport

Harbor will meet at the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum for a

candidates forum; and the Irvine Rotary Club will meet at the Irvine

Marriott Hotel to hear yours truly talk on “Polio Eradication”

(www.nirotary.org).

* COMMUNITY & CLUBS is published Saturdays in the Daily Pilot.

Send your service club’s meeting information by Fax to (949)

660-8667; e-mail to jdeboom@aol.com or by mail to 2082 S.E. Bristol,

Suite 201, Newport Beach, CA 92660-1740.